[villalobos]

All right here is the deal. Once in a while I exchange files between my laptop and the tower (both under 10.2.3). When I do that I think about setting the tower (generally the server side in 'don't go to sleep' mode). But sometimes I forget, and then everything goes berzerk on the Ibook whenever the tower goes to sleep. I get the spinning wheel on the finder and on every applications. I can't force quit anything or force restart the finder. I basically have to pull the battery.

Is that a 'normal' behaviour? If yes, will Apple fix that one day, 'cause that just should not be this way...

Villa

[bradoesch]

I've noticed strange behavior from my iMac when the computers that host mounted disk shutdown, sleep, etc. as well.
Are you familiar with using the terminal in OS X? You might be able to restart your iBook using your tower when it does lock up. If you enable remote login, it'll tell you what to type at the terminal to login to your iBook. Once you're logged in, type

Code:
sudo shutdown -r now

type in your password, and you might be able to properly restart your iBook that way.

[marky_boy]

i get a similar problem with my powerbook. im usually plugged into the work network, mount the server drives (afp, smb), finish for the day, unplug (and forget to dismount drives), go home, plug into home network and in about 10 minutes the powerbook goes into la-la land.

spinning beach balls galore on all open applications. i end up having to give the powerbook the 3 finger salute....

what a pain!

[CarpetFluff]

There is an excellent application called 'escapepod' which you can find on Version Tracker which allows you to force quit apps or log out even when everything is frozen. It runs invisibly in the background so have it as a login item and it should help you when things go wrong.

If you can get to the login screen you can restart the computer from there.

I think there are a lot of improvements to me made to networking stability in X. My machines always have a fit when you forget to umount a network volume or something like that!

[CarpetFluff]

One other thing, I don't put my tower to sleep, but there's an option in the Energy Saver preferences to 'wake for network access', do you have this switched on?